He can leave. Beside some meaningless matches were we didn't play him, he was used correctly - flashes of genius mixed with giving balls away to the left and right, he was clearly not ready. I have a gut feeling his dear dad was the instigator to all this. Even if my feelings are a bit irrational, I want Thiago's brother out of our club so we never ever have to deal with this Mazinho dipsh*t again. I don't wish Thiago bad luck or anything if he leaves, it just makes me angry. But on the other hand we need loyal players, but we can't treat some of them like sh*t.
Edit: and now we will probably need another CM, if Xavi gets injured we are down to 2 CM's and probably Busquets/Song could fill in. And any CM we will look at will probably cost more than we get for Thiago the way we do business. Man, we're such suckers on the transfer market.